Kitab

Kitab, based on Scheherazade, is an Arabic font with a design based on traditional typefaces such as Monotype Naskh, extended to cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire.

It is also designed to support rendering Quranic text in a Unicode-compliant manner.

Changes

• Increased the base font size.
• Decreased the base line height.
• Added the Basmalah (U+FDFD), ﷺ, and ﷻ characters from Amiri.
• Replaced the angle quotes and ayah quotes with Amiri's (i.e., «» and ﴿﴾).
• Replaced U+06E0 (small high upright rectangular zero) with Amiri's.
• Added laam hamzah alif ligature (i.e., لا but with a hamzah in the middle). This is needed for Quranic orthography (e.g. الـٔاخرة). Currently there is no pure Unicode solution for this
• The width of ۩ (U+06E9) was increased.
• A slight curve was added to U+0670 (Small alif).
• Numerous collision fixes.

The follow glyphs were enlarged:

• U+06E4 (Small high maddah)
• U+06DB (Small high 3 dots)
• U+06D8 (Small high meem initial form)
• U+06E5 (Small waaw)

The following glyphs were made to be lower on "the line" when in a word.

• U+0654 (Hamzah above) (أَنۢبِـُٔونِی)
• U+06E7 (Small high yaa) (ٱلنَّبِیِّـۧنَ)
• U+06E4 (madd) when on top of U+06E6 (small yaa) (یَسۡتَحۡیِۦۤ)

The following honorifics were added (note: these honorifics are set to be included in Unicode 14)

• U+FDFE (سبحانه وتعالى)
• U+FDFF (عز وجل)
• U+FD40 (رحمه الله)
• U+FD41 (رضي الله عنه)
• U+FD42 (رضي الله عنها)
• U+FD43 (رضي الله عنهم)
• U+FD44 (رضي الله عنهما)
• U+FD45 (رضي الله عنهن)
• U+FD47 (عليه السلام)
• U+FD4D (عليها السلام)
• U+FD48 (عليهم السلام)
• U+FD49 (عليهما السلام)

License

This font software is free to use, modify, and redistribute according to the terms of the SIL Open Font License.